Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the Individual
The first SEC deferred-prosecution agreement for an individual raises a couple of issues. Here is the document itself: SEC DPA With Herckis First, a reminder. A...
Why Is Insider Trading Sometimes Civil and Sometimes Criminal?
Here’s an easy-to-read primer by @WaltPavlo in @Forbes on the difference between civil and criminal prosecutions of insider trading: Insider Trading: Civil Or Criminal Crime?...
Weekend Cocktail Notes from White Collar Wire
“’This is a good place,’ he said. ‘There’s a lot of liquor,’ I agreed.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Gin is juniper, in...
Browning: “the poet, not the automatic”
Does reading literary fiction really increase your social intelligence? Here: I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov Maybe. But what about crime fiction? ...
Alabama’s New Sentencing Guidelines
A good summary from Sentencing Law and Policy Blog about Alabama’s new sentencing guidelines: I find it so very telling that when states create sentencing...
From our friends at the White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Quick collection of white-collar news from the White Collar Crime Prof Blog: Mark Hamblett & Sara Randazzo, The AmLaw Daily, Ex-Kirkland Partner Sentenced to One...
Tuomey, Stark, FCA and Advice of Counsel
This has been a long saga, even by FCA standards: Judge orders Tuomey to pay $276.8 million for Stark, False Claims Act violations (via ModernHealthcare.com)....
Qwest’s Joe Nacchio, Club Fed, the NSA and “Rub it on your chest”
Here’s a short, interesting article about Qwest’s Joe Nacchio and his release from prison A couple of takeaways: ...
Fall Cocktails
Fall Cocktails: The Six Best Whiskey Drinks You’ve Never Heard of is quite a list. Personally, I wish to try a Suburban “If you could...
Madoff’s Screw Sculpture, Bill Murray and Rule 403
The fact that Madoff’s Screw Sculpture Is Excluded From Evidence at Trial (tipped off by @WaltPavlo) is amusing to a non-party, reminiscient as it is...